So, going into tech weekend/week of opening, the cast and crew of Gypsy thought that they would see what would happen if their lead couldn't perform. Hence the Great Appendicitis Scare of '010. After being rushed to the ER, the butt of the cow took over as the highest paid stripper in the business, while the original Gypsy dealt with her cyst in a hospital bed?
xoxo
Your friendly neighborhood Keeper-Upper of Greenroom Goings-Ons
Tech Weekend
Good luck Baylor Green Room Blog!
Glad to see this flaring up again (like a hemorrhoid).
I miss having fun and cracking wise with all of you in the Green Room. I hope you've all seen this by now, but if not, it documents the three years at BUT enjoyed by my Grad class (Becca and Me).
Many of you are in it and the Green Room makes a couple appearances.
Love.
Dan Buck
A WHOLE NEW YEAR!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLT!!!!>>>
So far, I'm all about this year. And to show my excitement, I'm bringing back the blog...vlog...thing.
This blog is aimed towards current Baylor students, so READ IT! No, but really. I want this to be a place where we can all post those crazy things that happen in the theatre building after hours, or even during hours. By time we're done we should have videos of people hiding while playing Sardines, professors dancing at Gtroupe shows, and police escorting actors out of the building!
^^^GYPSY poster! (unedited) Opening night 17 days!
Post Script-
My personal goal with this blog is to have more posts this year than Jeff has fbook albums! So far we're 1:1.
Every soldier has a nickname
In Iphegenia they are as follows:
Clayton: Sledge
Adam: Boomer
Brandon: Flex
Kendall: Nashville
and Clay Van Winkle....
Welcome Back!
Welcome Back! Here's to a fresh semester...hopefully, one that will be good for all of us!
Kelsey :)
Welcome Back!
So, the summer is winding to a close and everyone will soon be back in Waco, back on campus, back in the Green Room(which has a WHOLE NEW look...very nice). I'm sure I'm not the only one who is ready for classes to start and ready to see people. I'm ready to get back in the routine of things...I've been going to bed so late these past months and waking up even later, that I need to know what it's like to get up at 8am for my first class of the day, after having gone to bed before 12am the night before.
Basically I just want to say WELCOME BACK!
See you in the Green Room!
Peace & Love
Kelsey
The Playwright's Coffee Shop
I couldn't resist sharing the opening paragraph from the paper I'm writing for Dr. C.
I have to wonder, have I come up with the best coffee drink names? If you can think of better I'll sub your answers in for the ones I have here.Imagine with me for a moment an after-life coffee shop where history’s great playwrights gather for lattes and discourse. On the menu there are specialty drinks bearing names like Hamlet-chino, Machinal Macchiato, The Caucasian Chocolate Mocha, and A Doll’s House Blend. In one corner, on purple felt couches sit Euripides and Moliere sharing a slice of Lemon Pound Cake. It is impossible to know what these great playwrights would discuss, separated as they are by 2000 years and a dozen movements in dramatic literature. And yet, it is difficult to imagine that the words “deus ex machine” wouldn’t come up before the night was out.
Picasso
Saw PALA last night and had a great time! What a fantastic show.
The direction, the set, the performances, the costumes, the lighting, the sound design, all worked cohesively.
I was especially impressed with Joey, Clay, and Jeff. All the actors did a great job, but I saw these three take a step forward in their acting ability. Not that they weren't great already, I just saw new great in them last night.
Well done, everybody!
On a side note: I made a minor fool of myself last night. I saw Totie B with a guy I didn't recognize last night, way across the smokey Mabee Theatre. So, I sent her a text that read, "Is that your bro?" Thinking it might be her New Orleans brother. She texted me back and I saw her talking to him and laughing. When her text arrived it read "That's Dr. Jortner." (My new graduate professor) I looked up and he was waving. I sheepishly waved back.
After the show I got to chat with him, and he's a kind, accessible guy, who wants students to call him Dave or David. Nice. Looking forward to learning from him.
Is it REALLY amazing?
I'd like to outlaw the use of the word amazing. It needs a break. Especially the use of it as two words "Uhhh Mazing!" Please stop when tempted to use this word and reach into your vocabulary for a different word.
That is all.
Spongey Blue... no more
Today the Green Room will be painted. And as one would expect the hours leading up to the actual painting involved lots of people walking by saying, "What's the color gonna be?" And when they were told, they wrinkled their noses. It's the nature of people, they only like the decisions they've made. Just remember, the color was Patrick's idea. (Not really, but blame him if you don't like it.)
The actual color will be "Jamaican Bay" which I can only assume looks like this:
With accent walls, which have nothing to do with Jamaican accents to my great disappointment.
A new coat of paint will bring a breath of fresh (possibly Jamaican) air to the Green Room and I would like to thank those who donated funds, those who made decisions, and especially those who did the actual work. You are saints and yet all you'll hear is griping.
Just remember everybody, the alternative plan was one devised by Beki and I and it included a mural a la the one at Texas Roadhouse. 
Our version would have Chekhov riding Stanislavski in front of the Hooper-Schaffer Center hollerin' "Yeah, Konny, you're mah bitch!" And Brecht would be smoking four cigarettes in the corner wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt.
Muppets Bloopers
I've always loved the Muppets and this is a recently released bloopers reel. Awesome.
What happens when you run a Google Image Search on Steven Pounders.
Everyone has, at one point or another, Google Image Searched their own name either out of vanity or sheer curiosity. I prefer to Google Image Search the names of those around me, in hopes of yielding entertaining results. For example, venerable professor Steven Pounders.
We start with a fairly normal picture (from the Baylor website):
Not so bad, eh? Dark, brooding, Kevin Kline-esque. After bypassing a photo of Jenny Ledel (an individual often confused by the paparazzi with Mr. Pounders), we come to something a bit steamier:
Our beloved Steven was hailed by some critics as "MacBuff" for his performance in this Shakespearean masterwork. Soon after, however, the pictorial procession becomes all-too-familiar to his stalkers and those who read Star or Us Weekly. It's Pounders using his same old bag of tricks. Pounders as a sexually ambiguous therapist, Pounders as a reputable New York Equity actor, blah, blah, blah. Then, just when all hope seems to be lost, Steven shows us something truly remarkable. It's Steven Pounders as we've never seen him before:
Move over, Jin from Lost ! Can Pounders ride this new wave of success (pun achieved) back into the hearts of those who used to love him but eventually lost interest? Only time will tell. One thing, however, is certain: the Google Image Search is not a toy, but a tool by which we can ostensibly mark the success of those around us.
As for me? Ah, search engine fame is only for the few. But, if you must, search and let me know what you find. After all, I'm no Lincoln Thompson...
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